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A '''colony''' is a territory subject to a form of [[foreign rule]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/colony |title= colony |date= 2021|publisher= Oxford University Press|website= [[Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]]|accessdate= 8 January 2021 | quote = 1. [...] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country}}</ref> which rules the territory and its [[indigenous peoples]] separated from the foreign rulers, the [[colonizer]], and their ''[[metropole]]'' (or "mother country").<ref name="i561">{{cite web | title=Collins Englisch Wörterbuch | website=COLONY Definition und Bedeutung | date=2017-12-20 | url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/colony | quote=any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power | language=de | access-date=2025-01-10}}</ref> This separated rule was often organized into [[colonial empire]]s, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither [[annexation|annexed]] or even [[Territorial integration|integrated]] territories, nor [[client state]]s. Particularly [[new imperialism]] and its [[colonialism]] advanced this separated rule and its lasting [[coloniality]]. Colonies were most often set up and [[colonized]] for exploitation and possibly settlement by [[colonist]]s.<ref name="Overseas"/> | A '''colony''' is a territory subject to a form of [[foreign rule]],<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/colony |title= colony |date= 2021|publisher= Oxford University Press|website= [[Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]]|accessdate= 8 January 2021 | quote = 1. [...] a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country}}</ref> which rules the territory and its [[indigenous peoples]] separated from the foreign rulers, the [[colonizer]], and their ''[[metropole]]'' (or "mother country").<ref name="i561">{{cite web | title=Collins Englisch Wörterbuch | website=COLONY Definition und Bedeutung | date=2017-12-20 | url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/colony | quote=any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power | language=de | access-date=2025-01-10}}</ref> This separated rule was often organized into [[colonial empire]]s, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither [[annexation|annexed]] or even [[Territorial integration|integrated]] territories, nor [[client state]]s. Particularly [[new imperialism]] and its [[colonialism]] advanced this separated rule and its lasting [[coloniality]]. Colonies were most often set up and [[colonized]] for exploitation and possibly settlement by [[colonist]]s.<ref name="Overseas"/> | ||
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==Concept== | ==Concept== | ||
The word "colony" comes from the Latin word {{lang|la|[[Colonia (Roman)|colōnia]]}}, used for [[Ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] [[Outpost (military)|outpost]]s and eventually for cities. | The English-language word "colony" comes from the Latin word {{lang|la|[[Colonia (Roman)|colōnia]]}}, used for [[Ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] [[Outpost (military)|outpost]]s and eventually for cities. The Latin term {{lang | la | colōnia}} in turn derives from the word {{lang|la|[[Colonus (person)|colōnus]]}}, which referred to a Roman [[tenant farmer]]. | ||
Settlements that began as Roman {{lang|la|coloniae}} include cities from [[Cologne]] (which retains this history in its name) to [[Belgrade]] to [[York]]. A telltale sign of a settlement within the Roman sphere of influence once being a Roman colony is a city centre with a grid pattern.<ref>{{cite book|author=James S. Jeffers|title=The Greco-Roman world of the New Testament era: exploring the background of early Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGmKaXiUDiYC|year=1999|publisher=InterVarsity Press|isbn=978-0-8308-1589-0|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YGmKaXiUDiYC&pg=PA52 52–53]}}</ref> | Settlements that began as Roman {{lang|la|coloniae}} include cities from [[Cologne]] (which retains this history in its name) to [[Belgrade]] to [[York]]. A telltale sign of a settlement within the Roman sphere of influence once being a Roman colony is a city centre with a grid pattern.<ref>{{cite book |author=James S. Jeffers |title=The Greco-Roman world of the New Testament era: exploring the background of early Christianity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGmKaXiUDiYC |year=1999 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-1589-0 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YGmKaXiUDiYC&pg=PA52 52–53]}}</ref> | ||
Historians and political scientists may distinguish "[[settler colonies]]" as a subset of the class of colonies. Settler colonies comprise a more particular type of a settlement or community.<ref name="Overseas">{{Cite book |last =Stanard |first =Matthew G. |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=pZlNDwAAQBAJ |title =European Overseas Empire, 1879 - 1999: A Short History |date =2018 |publisher =John Wiley & Sons |isbn =978-1-119-13013-0 |doi =10.1002/9781119367376 |pages =4–5 |language =en | quote =One kind of colony comprises a group of people that leaves one place to settle in a distant land, and who then remain free of formal control of their country of origin. Ancient Greeks who departed the area around the Aegean Sea to establish settlements around the Mediterranean are an example of this, as is, more recently, the “colony” of Italians who settled in New York City from the late 1800s. A colony can also be such a settlement that remains controlled by the land from which the colonists originated. By 241 bce, the Roman Republic had established its first province in Sicily, for instance. More recent examples are Virginia and Australia, founded as British colonies in 1607 and 1788, respec-tively. A third type of colony is a territory conquered by a foreign power and placed in a subservient relationship within that power’s empire, but that, for whatever reason, is not settled by large numbers of people from the metropole. [...] A "colonist" is someone from a colonizing power who settles in a foreign or colonized land, a "colonizer" someone who engages in conquest and foreign rule, and the "colonized" those people subject to colonization, that is, indigenous people (natives) ruled over by foreigners and oftentimes dispossessed of their lands. To "colonize" (noun: "colonization") usually refers to setting up a colony, that is, taking and populating lands. "Colonialism," by contrast, often refers either to colonization or more generally to engaging in the practice of empire. This book emphasizes a major distinction, namely between "colonies" controlled by a metropole yet overwhelmingly populated by indigenous peoples, and "settler colonies," lands where colonists took land for settlement.}}</ref> | |||
==Ancient examples== | ==Ancient examples== | ||
{{Further|Colonies in antiquity}} | {{Further|Colonies in antiquity}} | ||
* [[Carthage]] formed as a [[Phoenicia]]n colony | * [[Carthage]] formed as a [[Phoenicia]]n colony | ||
* [[ | * [[Cádiz]] formed as a [[Phoenicia]]n colony | ||
* [[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]] was a colony of the [[Greeks]] of [[Santorini|Thera]] | * [[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]] was a colony of the [[Greeks]] of [[Santorini|Thera]] | ||
* [[Sicily]] was a part Greek, part [[Phoenicia]]n colony | * [[Sicily]] was a part Greek, part [[Phoenicia]]n colony | ||
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* {{annotated link|Diplomatic mission}} | * {{annotated link|Diplomatic mission}} | ||
;Settlements | ;Settlements and outposts (civilian and military) | ||
* {{annotated link|Border outpost}} | * {{annotated link|Border outpost}} | ||
* {{annotated link|Human outpost}} | * {{annotated link|Human outpost}} | ||
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* {{annotated link|Waypoint}} | * {{annotated link|Waypoint}} | ||
;Trade | ;Trade and manufacturing areas | ||
* {{annotated link|Entrepôt}} | * {{annotated link|Entrepôt}} | ||
* {{annotated link|Factory (trading post)}} | * {{annotated link|Factory (trading post)}} | ||
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* {{annotated link|Trading post}} | * {{annotated link|Trading post}} | ||
;Frontiers | ;Frontiers and extraterritorial areas | ||
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* {{annotated link|Frontier}} | * {{annotated link|Frontier}} | ||
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A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule,[1] which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole (or "mother country").[2] This separated rule was often organized into colonial empires, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither annexed or even integrated territories, nor client states. Particularly new imperialism and its colonialism advanced this separated rule and its lasting coloniality. Colonies were most often set up and colonized for exploitation and possibly settlement by colonists.[3]
The term colony originates from the ancient Roman Script error: No such module "Lang"., a type of Roman settlement. Derived from colonus (farmer, cultivator, planter, or settler), it carries with it the sense of 'farm' and 'landed estate'.[4] Furthermore, the term was used to refer to the older Greek apoikia (Template:Langx), which were overseas settlements by ancient Greek city-states. The city that founded such a settlement became known as its metropolis ("mother-city"). Since early-modern times, historians, administrators, and political scientists have generally used the term "colony" to refer mainly to the many different overseas territories of particularly European states between the 15th and 20th centuries CE, with colonialism and decolonization as corresponding phenomena.
While colonies often developed from trading outposts or territorial claims, such areas do not need to be a product of colonization, nor become colonially organized territories. Territories furthermore do not need to have been militarily conquered and occupied to come under colonial rule and to be considered de facto colonies, instead neocolonial exploitation of dependency or imperialist use of power to intervene to force policy, might make a territory be considered a colony, which broadens the concept, including indirect rule or puppet states (contrasted by more independent types of client states such as vassal states). Subsequently, some historians have used the term informal colony to refer to a country under a de facto control of another state. Though the broadening of the concept is often contentious.
Contemporarily colonies are identified and organized as not sufficiently self-governed dependent territories. Other past colonies have become either sufficiently incorporated and self-governed, or independent, with some to a varying degree dominated by remaining colonial settler societies or neocolonialism.
Concept
The English-language word "colony" comes from the Latin word Script error: No such module "Lang"., used for ancient Roman outposts and eventually for cities. The Latin term Script error: No such module "Lang". in turn derives from the word Script error: No such module "Lang"., which referred to a Roman tenant farmer.
Settlements that began as Roman Script error: No such module "Lang". include cities from Cologne (which retains this history in its name) to Belgrade to York. A telltale sign of a settlement within the Roman sphere of influence once being a Roman colony is a city centre with a grid pattern.[5]
Historians and political scientists may distinguish "settler colonies" as a subset of the class of colonies. Settler colonies comprise a more particular type of a settlement or community.[3]
Ancient examples
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- Carthage formed as a Phoenician colony
- Cádiz formed as a Phoenician colony
- Cyrene was a colony of the Greeks of Thera
- Sicily was a part Greek, part Phoenician colony
- Sardinia was a Phoenician colony
- Marseille formed as a Greek colony
- Malta was a Phoenician colony
- Cologne formed as a Roman colony and its modern name refer to the Latin term "colonia".
- Kandahar formed as a Greek colony during the Hellenistic era by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
More modern historical examples
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- L'Anse aux Meadows: a Norse colony which existed c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1025 AD.
- File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola: a colony of Portugal from the 16th century to its independence in 1975.
- File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia was formed as a British Dominion in 1901 from a federation of six distinct British colonies which were founded between 1788 and 1829.
- File:Flag of Barbados.svg Barbados: was a colony of Great Britain that was important in the Atlantic slave trade. It gained its independence in 1966.
- File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil: a colony of Portugal since the 16th century. Independent since 1822.
- File:Canadian Red Ensign (1868–1921).svg Canada: was colonized first by France as New France (1534–1763) and England (in Newfoundland, 1582) then under British rule (1763–1867), before achieving Dominion status and losing "colony" designation.
- File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo: a colony of Belgium from 1908 to 1960; previously under private ownership of King Leopold II.
- File:Flag of France (1794-1815).svg French Indochina was formed in October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam) and the Kingdom of Cambodia; Laos was added after the Franco-Siamese conflict of 1893. The federation lasted until 1954. In the four protectorates, the French formally left the local rulers in power, who were the Emperors of Vietnam, Kings of Cambodia, and Kings of Luang Prabang, but gathered all powers in their hands, the local rulers acting only as figureheads.
- File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana: Contact between Europe and Ghana (known as the Gold Coast) began in the 15th century with the arrival of the Portuguese. This soon led to the establishment of several colonies by European powers: Portuguese Gold Coast (1482–1642), Dutch Gold Coast (1598–1872), Swedish Gold Coast (1650–1663), Danish Gold Coast (1658–1850), Brandenburger and Prussian Gold Coast (1685–1721) and British Gold Coast (1821–1957). In 1957, Ghana was the first African colony south of the Sahara to become independent.
- File:Flag of Greenland.svg Greenland was a colony of Denmark-Norway from 1721 and was a colony of Denmark from 1814 to 1953. In 1953 Greenland was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom. Home rule was granted in 1979 and extended to self-rule in 2009. See also Danish colonization of the Americas.
- File:Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg Guinea-Bissau: a colony of Portugal since the 15th century. Independent since 1974.
- Template:Flagcountry was a British colony (from 1983 British Dependent Territory) from 1841 to 1997. Is now a Special Administrative Region of China.
- Template:Flagcountry was an imperial political entity comprising present-day India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan with regions under the direct control of the British Government of the United Kingdom from 1858 to 1947. From the 15th century until 1961, Portuguese India (Goa) was a colony of Portugal. Pondicherry and Chandernagore were part of French India from 1759 to 1954. Small Danish colonies of Tharangambadi, Serampore and the Nicobar Islands from 1620 to 1869 were known as Danish India.
- File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands gained full independence in 1949.[6]
- File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica was part of the Spanish West Indies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It became an English colony in 1655 and; independence in 1962.
- File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia a colony set up in 1821 by American private citizens for the migration of African American freedmen. Liberian Declaration of Independence from the American Colonization Society on 26 July 1847. It is the second oldest black republic in the world after Haiti.
- Template:Flagcountry was a Portuguese colony (from 1976 a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration") from 1557 to 1999. In 1999, two years after Hong Kong, it became a Special Administrative Region of China.
- File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia was initially colonized by the Portuguese Empire in 1511 after capturing Malacca.[7] After 1511, Britain established colonies and trading ports on the Malay Peninsula; Penang was leased to the British East India Company. The Dutch Empire encountered Malaysia when it was looking for spices to trade with.[8]
- File:Flag of Malta.svg Malta was a British protectorate and later a colony from the French Revolutionary Wars in 1800 to independence in 1964.
- File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique: a colony of Portugal since the 15th century. Independent since 1975.
- File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines, previously a colony of Spain from c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Refn to 1898 as part of the Spanish East Indies, was a colony of the United States from 1898 to 1946. Achieved self-governing Commonwealth status in 1935; independent in 1946.
- File:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico was a colony of Spain from 1493 to 1898, when it passed to be a colonial possession of the United States,[9][10][11] classified by the United States as "an unincorporated territory".[12] In 1914, the Puerto Rican House of Delegates voted unanimously in favor of independence from the United States, but this was rejected by the U.S. Congress as "unconstitutional" and in violation of the U.S. 1900 Foraker Act.[13] In 1952, after the US Congress approved Puerto Rico's constitution, its formal name became "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico", but its new name "did not change Puerto Rico's political, social, and economic relationship to the United States."[14][15] That year, the United States advised the United Nations (UN) that the island was a self-governing territory.[16]Template:Efn The United States has been "unwilling to play in public the imperial role... it has no appetite for acknowledging in a public way the contradictions implicit in frankly colonial rule."[17]Template:Efn The island has been called a colony by many,[18] including US Federal judges,[19] US Congresspeople,[20][21] the Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court,[22] and numerous scholars.[23]Template:Efn
- File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa consisted of territories and colonies by various African and European powers, including the Dutch and the British, and the Nguni. The territory consisting of the modern nation was ruled directly by the British from 1806 to 1910; became a self-governing dominion of Union of South Africa in 1910.
- File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka: a British colony from 1815 to 1948. Known as Ceylon. Was a British Dominion until 1972. Also a Portuguese colony in the 16th–17th centuries, and a Dutch colony in the 17th–18th centuries.
- File:Flag of Korea (1899).svg Korea was a colony of Japan from 1910 to 1945. North Korea and South Korea were established in 1948.
- File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan has a complex history of colonial rule under various powers, including the Dutch (1624–1662), Spanish (1626–1642), Chinese (1683–1895) and Japanese (1895–1945).[24] The precolonial (pre-1624) inhabitants of Taiwan are the ethno-linguistically Austronesian Taiwanese indigenous peoples, rather than the vast majority of present-day Taiwanese people, who are mostly ethno-linguistically Han Chinese. Twice throughout history, Taiwan has served as a quasi rump state for Chinese governments, the first instance being the Ming-loyalist Kingdom of Tungning (1662–1683) and the second instance being the present-day Republic of China (ROC), which officially claims continuity or succession from the Republic of China (1912–1949), having retreated from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949 during the final years of the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). The ROC, whose de facto territory consists almost entirely of the island of Taiwan and its minor satellite islands, continues to rule Taiwan as if it were a separate country from the People's Republic of China (consisting of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau).
- The File:Flag of the United States (1777–1795).svg United States was formed from a union of thirteen British colonies. The Colony of Virginia was the first of the thirteen colonies. All thirteen declared independence in July 1776 and expelled the British governors.
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Current colonies
The Special Committee on Decolonization maintains the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories, which identifies areas the United Nations (though not without controversy) believes are colonies. Given that dependent territories have varying degrees of autonomy and political power in the affairs of the controlling state, there is disagreement over the classification of "colony".
See also
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Notes
References
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- ↑ The Recolonization of Puerto Rico, Part 1. Template:Webarchive The Voluntown Peace Trust. 22 July 2021. Accessed 13 September 2021.
- ↑ Colonialism in Puerto Rico. Template:Webarchive Pedro Caban. SUNY-Albany. Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies Faculty. 2015. p. 516. Accessed 13 September 2021.
- ↑ C.D. Burnett, et al., Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution. Duke University Press. 2001. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Definitions of Insular Area Political Organizations. Template:Webarchive U.S. Department of the Interior. Office of Insular Affairs. 2021. Accessed 13 September 2021.
- ↑ Juan Gonzalez. Harvest of Empire Penguin Press. 2001. pp.60–63.Template:ISBN
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- ↑ "Let Puerto Rico Decide How to end its Colony Status: True Nationhood Stands on the Pillar of Independence." Template:Webarchive Rosalinda de Jesus. The Allentown Morning Call. Republished by The Puerto Rico Herald. July 21, 2002. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
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- ↑ Can't We Just Sell the World's Oldest Colony and Solve Puerto Rico's Political Status? Template:Webarchive Luis Martínez-Fernández. 16 July 2020. Accessed 13 September 2021.
- ↑ Hopes for DC, Puerto Rico statehood rise. Template:Webarchive Marty Johnson and Rafael Bernal. The Hill. 24 September 2020. Accessed 13 September 2021.
- ↑ José Trías Monge. Puerto Rico: The trials of the oldest colony in the world. Yale University Press. 1997. p.3. Template:ISBN
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Further reading
- Aldrich, Robert. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996)
- Ansprenger, Franz ed. The Dissolution of the Colonial Empires (1989)
- Benjamin, Thomas, ed. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 (2006).
- Ermatinger, James. ed. The Roman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (2 vol 2018)
- Higham, C. S. S. History Of The British Empire (1921) online free
- James, Lawrence. The Illustrated Rise and Fall of the British Empire (2000)
- Kia, Mehrdad, ed. The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (2017)
- Page, Melvin E. ed. Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (3 vol. 2003)
- Priestley, Herbert Ingram. (France overseas;: A study of modern imperialism 1938) 463pp; encyclopedic coverage as of late 1930s
- Tarver, H. Micheal and Emily Slape. The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (2 vol. 2016)
- Wesseling, H.L. The European Colonial Empires: 1815–1919 (2015).
External links
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- Non-Self-Governing Territories Listed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2002
- Non-Self-Governing Territories Listed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012
- Siberia : History (covers Siberia as Russian colony)
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